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ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. 



The habits of this fine bird can only be judged by 

 analogy to be the same with those of the Mountain 

 Eagles of the Old World, none of the travellers in 

 New Holland, as far as we are aware, having paid any 

 attention to the subject. Mr. Cunningham mentions 

 that the Eagles in the neighbourhood of Port Jackson 

 " prey upon the emews and other large birds, and also 

 upon the yoimg kangaroos." The individual figured 

 by Collins was captured by Captain Waterhouse in 

 an excursion to Broken Bay, and gave a proof of its 

 strength by forcing its talons through a man's foot, 

 while lying in the bottom of a boat with its legs tied 

 together. During ten days that it remained in captivity 

 it refused to be fed by any but one particular person. 

 It was an object of wonder and fear among the natives, 

 who could never be prevailed on to go near it. They 

 asserted that it would carry off a middling-sized kan- 

 garoo. It was one morning found to have divided the 

 strands of the rope by which it was fastened, and thus 

 to have made its escape. 



The bird now in the possession of the Zoological 

 Society is, we believe, the first that has been brought 

 to Europe in the living state. There is nothing in its 

 manners to distinguish it remarkably from the other 

 species of its tribe. 



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